Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 12

“Oh, I am all right, my boy,” replied Father Tortoise; “tell Mother she need not trouble about me.

Who acts: right boy, Mother · What happens: be, reply, tell, not need · To what, where: Father, Mother, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right boy, Mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 right	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 right	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boy	nmod:poss
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	obj
15	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Father	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 replied	conj
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 need	nsubj
21	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 need	advmod
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 trouble	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	my right boy = boy			all, right property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	my right boy	Father			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	my right boy not said here		Mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not need in a quote	present	Mother	trouble		about my right boy = boy	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 12